The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-06-16

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-. We failed to note last week the fact
that Beaufort went dry.
-. Mrs. Moore, a lady of Rutherford
county, has just died, and it is claimed
that she was 1O5 years old
... The Winston Sentinel has been pur
chased by Mr.. Vernon W. Long, a recent
graduate of the University
IA negro filling the description of
Caesar WOOten, was arrested in Edenton
last week, but is proved to be the wrong
man.
will be held in July at Carthage. Prof.
n. b. Henry, of the University, will assist
County Superintendent Shields
The Revenue office of the Fifth
District will be moved from Reidsville to
Charlotte. Col. a. J. Boyd will make ar
rangements at once for the removal.
Mr.. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, has
sent to this city, 30, 900 cigarettes of the
Golden Belt brand, to be sold for the bene-
tit of the Thompson Orphanage e-IChar-
lotte Chronicle.
1t is confidently believed and so
stated that the Headquarters of the Fifth
Revenue District will be removed to Char
lotte, with stamp offices at Asheville,
Statesville and Mount Airy.
$500 A suit was tried here Yesterday bv
Justice Womack, in which the paternity
of a colt was to be decided, and the colt
itself was presented to the court as a wit
ness Pittsboro Record
-, The report that the libel suit of the
Durham Cotton Mills against c. F. King,
editor of the Craftsman, has been com
promised is not true. 1t will be tried at
the next term of Durham court.
The printers employed in the office
OF the Charlotte Observer, Saturday struck
for payment of their wages. and the pro-
prietor being unable to meet their demands,
work was suspended in the office.-(Char-
lotte Chronicle.
-. Mr.. J. B. Whitaker, Jr.. our city
editor, has concluded to begin the publ
cation of semi weekly and weekly news
paper soon after the removal of the Mes
senger to Wilmington. He will also have
first class job printing Office Il Goldsboro
Messenger.
Mr. K. I. Faucet, President of the
Faucet Durham Tobacco and Snuff Co.,
closed contract yesterday with one of
our city contractors for an additional build
ing 7Ox39 feet to his already large estab-
llshment. the new addition will very
probably make this the largest framed
tobacco factory in the South Durham
News.
-. Unveiling of the monument erected
to the memory of the brave Maj g. N.
Grumpy, 1st N. G. Cavalry, will take
place at Rockford on Wednesday, June
goth, p. m.. Address upon the life and
character of that gallant soldier and cti-
zen will be delivered upon this occasion
by Coils. W. H. III. CowIes, of Wilkesboro,
and L. L. Polk, of Raleigh. - Greensboro
Patriot.
-. Col. J. NJ. Galloway, of Madison, is
thinking Of going into mica mining in this
county. We hope he will decide to do so
at once. This is the first instance in this
section of a mOneyed man desiring to i'll
vest in this business, and we trust that
through the capital and industry of Col.
Galloway much may be done toward de-
veloping the mica and general mining in
terests of the county, Websters Weekly.
The Board of Examiners of the
State Dental Examining Board is now
composed of the following: DR.. J. f.
Matthews, of kenansvilIe, DR.. J. W. Hun
ter, of Salem, DR.. f. L. Hunter, of Enfield,
DR.. J. W. Durham, of Wilmington, Dr. j
+. Griffith, of salisbury and DR.. V. L.
Turner, of Raleigh. The next meeting Of
the Dental Association will be held at
Raleigh, commencing the last Tuesday in
May, 1888.
The package of cutters donated to
the Lee Camp Soldiers Home by the Black
well Durham Cooperative Tobacco Com
pany through its President, Mr.. Julian S.
Carr, was sold yesterday at the Richmond
Tobacco Exchange by Messrs. G. Watkins
IL Co., to Messrs. Allen & Gnter for thirty
dollars per hundred pounds. The above
is clipped from one of the Richmond pa
pers of last week, We are glad that the
old North State is helping in this noble
work and doubly glad that Durham, as
usual, is among the first Tobacco Plant.